Hee-hee! Loved the play on "Law and Order" was it? And the arsonists setting live-stock on fire- funny! And often tasty.

More please.

I'm hearing the trademark Law & Order sound effect in my head... :o)

Looking forward to seeing where this goes, Devin!

I love your historical twists on modern genres. Keep it up.

Also, weren't scythians mounted nomads similar to Huns and Asiatic steppe horseman? Perhaps you are thinking of Thracians (Dacians in Roamn times)? However, the Greeks would probably refer to them simply as Barbarians. Herodotus is a great source for information on the Scythians/Thracians/ and other barbarian tribes of the Greek Era.

Stupid fact. The word barbarian comes from the the fact that Greeks found foreign languages hard to understand and often only heard "Bar, bar, bar". hence people that spoke that dialect were barbarians.

History geek /Off

You're correct about the "actual" Scythians: horse-based nomads. The Scythian police force are so-called because of their "Scythian" equipment: bows, clubs, and the distinctive caps. According to my sources, the Scythians could be found in Asia Minor and around the Black Sea.

I have to be careful in doing this comic because, while I do work from primary sources to some degree, some of my research material is coming from GURPS sourcebooks and children's illustrated books on ancient Greece. I'm no scholar!

Funny you should mention the origin of the word "barbarian". My series bible specifies that the Barbarian rarely speaks, but when he does, he only says "Bar bar bar bar..."

Ohh, this is awesome. Thanks for pointing me toward these essays. There's a lot of information there I didn't know (like the number of Scythians Athens had, and how the Scythians "imprisoned" those they arrested, etc.). That's going to help a lot in writing this story.